A third defendant in a high-profile murder-for-hire plot targeting the estranged wife of prominent South Florida developer Sergio Pino pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court, according to court records obtained by Local 10 News.

Two defendants who were arrested last year in the alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting the estranged wife of South Florida developer Sergio Pino pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court.

Authorities have released 911 call recordings from the frantic moment an alleged hitman showed up at the Pinecrest home of developer Sergio Pino’s estranged wife.

The estranged wife of South Florida developer Sergio Pino wanted half of her husband’s fortune in their divorce and refused to settle for an offered $20 million, according to a criminal complaint for one of the nine people arrested in a murder-for-hire plot.

A total of nine people are facing charges related to a murder-for-hire plot the FBI says wealthy South Florida developer Sergio Pino orchestrated with the intent of having his wife killed.

Attorney Sam Rabin said the law enforcement response to the Coral Gables home of Sergio Pino, a prominent developer and philanthropist, was “unprecedented and unnecessary.”

Prominent South Florida developer Sergio Pino was found dead following an FBI raid “connected to an ongoing murder-for-hire investigation” at his home in Coral Gables Tuesday morning, officials said; his attorney says he took his own life.